How do I edit the save file to make a ship a museum ship?

[Noname117]

So in the most recent game of Rule the Waves I've been playing there's a ship I want to make sure becomes a museum ship. I know how you can turn RTWGame(Number) into a txt file (and then back, although that's always a bit tougher on Windows 10), and where to find all the existing ships of a nation. But I don't know which numbers you tweak to make the ship a museum ship. So here's the text from the ship I'm trying to turn into a museum ship, can someone tell me which values to change?


Ship141Name=Conner

Ship141Classname=Balch

Ship141EnemyClassName=Balch

Ship141ShipType=DD

Ship141Displacement=1100

Ship141CrewQuality=20

Ship141TimeToRefit=0

Ship141InPlay=1

Ship141ObsoleteDate=9250

Ship141Reinforcement=0

Ship141AccomodationCramped=0

Ship141ColonialService=0

Ship141EnginePriority=0

Ship141MainCalibre=5

Ship141RepairTime=0

Ship141Side=0

Ship141Course=0

Ship141Fate=XXX

Ship141Active=0

Ship141Training=0

Ship141Deployed=0

Ship141Used=0

Ship141Mine capacity=0

Ship141Mines=0

Ship141BattleStars=3

Ship141Cost=3944000

Ship141BuildProgress=3944006

Ship141MonthlyCost=358545

Ship141Maintenance=22000

Ship141Halted=0

Ship141Hurry=0

Ship141Status=0

Ship141Description=Guns: 4 x 5, 6 TT

Ship141YearBuilt=1915

Ship141Speed=30

Ship141EnemySpeed=34

Ship141Range=1

Ship141BuildingNationIdx=0

Ship141Rebuild=0

Ship141LocationAreaName=North American East Coast

Ship141DestinationAreaName=XXX

Ship141OrderedAreaName=XXX

Thanks!

[aeson]

I believe changing Ship141Status=0 to Ship141Status=9 is what you need to do, though you may also need to mess with the value of the MuseumShip= line.

Alternatively, you can just mothball it and name it [Ship Name] Museum or something like that, which doesn't cost you any more than turning it into a 'real' museum ship would.

[bcoopactual]

Here are the values for a ship the game made a museum in my current game, USS Louisiana.  Like aeson stated it looks like the only major difference is the ship status line.  Also like he stated the "Museum=" value at the beginning of the file in the [General] area now has a value of "1".  I believe that just indicates the event has fired.